Name: 2020 Joint Statistical Meetings
Start: 2020-08-02T07:00:00+00:00
End: 2020-08-06

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3 * !	Mon, 8/3/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Individualized Treatment Rules — Invited Papers
Biometrics Section, Social Statistics Section, Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Michael Lingzhi Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chair(s): Kosuke Imai, Harvard University
10:05 AM	Synthetic Difference in Differences David Abraham Hirshberg, Stanford GSB; Dmitry Arkhangelsky, CEMFI Madrid; Susan Athey, Stanford University; Guido Imbens, Stanford GSB; Stefan Wager, Stanford University
10:30 AM	Improved Doubly Robust Estimation in Learning Optimal Individualized Treatment Rules Yinghao Pan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte ; Yingqi Zhao, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
10:55 AM	Experimental Evaluation of Individualized Treatment Rules Michael Lingzhi Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kosuke Imai, Harvard University
11:20 AM	Online Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Health Susan Murphy, Harvard University; Peng Liao, Harvard University; Sabina Tomkins, Stanford University; Predrag Klasnja, University of Michigan
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

10 * !	Mon, 8/3/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Agent-Based Models for Informing Public Policy: Applications and Statistical Challenges — Invited Papers
Social Statistics Section, Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
Organizer(s): Leah R Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Chair(s): Leah R Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
10:05 AM	Dimensionality Reduction for Stochastic Processes Vadim Sokolov, George Mason University; Nicholas Polson, University of Chicago; Laura J. Schultz, George Mason University
10:55 AM	Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Agent Based Models Toryn Schafer, University of Missouri; Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
11:20 AM	Emulation and Recursive Bayes for Agent-Based Demographic Models Mevin Hooten, Colorado State University
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

17 * !	Mon, 8/3/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Technology Impact on Total Survey Error — Invited Papers
Survey Research Methods Section, Social Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section, Text Analysis Interest Group
Organizer(s): Stanislav Kolenikov, Abt Associates
Chair(s): Antje Kirchner, RTI International
10:05 AM	Detecting Housing Units from Satellite Imagery Using Computer Vision Presentation Stephanie Eckman, RTI International; Qiang Qiu, Purdue University; Tien-Yu Liu, Duke University
10:25 AM	Automatic Coding of Open-Ended Questions: Does Double Coding of the Training Data Reduce the Error of Automatic Coding? Zhoushanyue He, University of Waterloo; Matthias Schonlau, University of Waterloo
10:45 AM	Total Survey Error and Geographic Information Systems Ned English, NORC; Kevin Brown, NORC ; Chang Zhao, NORC
11:05 AM	Passive Data Collection Using Smartphones Bella Struminskaya, Utrecht University
11:25 AM	Discussant: Stanislav Kolenikov, Abt Associates
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

23 * !	Mon, 8/3/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
What Are High-Quality Statistics Worth? — Invited Panel
Business and Economic Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section, Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): John Eltinge, Census Bureau
Chair(s): David Wessel, Hutchins Center, Brookings Institution
10:05 AM	What Are High-Quality Statistics Worth?
Panelists:	John Eltinge, Census Bureau John Fernald, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and INSEAD Erica Groshen, Cornell University and former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Maurine Haver, Haver Analytics Jack Kleinhenz, Kleinhenz & Associates, LTD and National Retailers Association
11:40 AM	Floor Discussion

35 * !	Mon, 8/3/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Imputing Race/Ethnicity to Understand Health Care Disparities Among Older Adults — Topic Contributed Papers
Social Statistics Section, Health Policy Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Amelia M Haviland, Carnegie Mellon University
Chair(s): David Choi, Carnegie Mellon University
10:05 AM	The Contribution of First-Name Information to the Accuracy of Racial and Ethnic Imputations Varies by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Amelia M Haviland, Carnegie Mellon University
10:25 AM	Socioeconomic Disparities in the Quality of Behavioral Health Care Joshua Breslau, RAND Corporation
10:45 AM	Implicit Bias and Black-White Disparities in Health Care Among Older Adults Madhumita Ghosh-Dastidar, RAND Corporation
11:05 AM	Voluntary Disenrollment from Health Plans Is Higher Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities Marc Elliott, RAND
11:25 AM	Discussant: John L Adams, Kaiser Permanente, Center for Effectiveness and Safety Research
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

49	Mon, 8/3/2020, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM	Virtual
Statistical Measurements of Social Issues and Trends — Contributed Papers
Social Statistics Section, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): Antje Kirchner, RTI International
	A Study of Spatial Misalignment with an Application to Police Use of Force Claire Kelling; Murali Haran, Pennsylvania State University; Aleksandra Slavkovic, Pennsylvania State University; Corina Graif, Penn State
	Estimating the Effect of Violence on Internal Displacement in Afghanistan Using Mobile Phone Metadata Xiao Hui Tai, U.C. Berkeley; Joshua Blumenstock, U.C. Berkeley; Shikhar Mehra, U.C. Berkeley
	Temporal Importance and Resilience of Topics: Inferring Polarity Through Topic Models Presentation Shane Bookhultz, Virginia Tech; Scotland Leman, Virginia Tech; Shyam Ranganathan, Virginia Tech; James Hawdon, Virginia Tech; Tanushree Mitra, Virginia Tech
	Racial Disparities in Policing: A Variance Decomposition Approach Mikaela Meyer, Carnegie Mellon University; Amelia M Haviland, Carnegie Mellon University
	Global Solutions to Host, Protect and Resettle Refugees Allison Conners, ISR Foundation; Woosang Chang, ISR Foundation; Asaph Young Chun, Statistics Research Institute - Statistics Korea

50	Mon, 8/3/2020, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM	Virtual
Methodological Developments and Implications for Social Scientists — Contributed Papers
Social Statistics Section
Chair(s): Karol Krotki, RTI International
	Longitudinal Dyadic Interdependence in Depression Symptoms of Caregivers Living with HIV in Uganda and their Dependent Children’s Neurodevelopment and Executive Behavior Outcomes Presentation Atreyee Majumder, Visiting Nurse Service of New York; Alla Sikorskii, Michigan State University; Itziar Familiar, Michigan State University; Judith Bass, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; Noeline Nakasujja, Makerere University; Michael Boivin, Michigan State University
	A Reparametrized Linear Model That Parses Qualitative and Quantitative Characteristics of a Set of Predictors Relative to a Criterion Ernest Davenport, University of Minnesota-College of Education & Human Development; Mark L Davison, University of Minnesota
	What Do Parents Know About Their Children? Parent-Child Agreement in the Longitudinal Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study Janet Rosenbaum
	Modeling Covarying Responses of Forensic Decision-Makers Within an IRT Framework Amanda Luby, Swarthmore College
	The Impact of Writing Prompts on the Writing Performance of English Language Learners Ya Mo, Boise State University; Qizhen Deng, Boise State University; Katherine Wright, Boise State University; Nell Sedransk, National Institute of Statistical Sciences

110 * !	Mon, 8/3/2020, 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM	Virtual
Data Science for the Public Good — Invited Papers
Caucus for Women in Statistics, Statistics Without Borders, Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, University of Edinburgh, Duke University, RStudio
Chair(s): Suzanne Thornton, Swarthmore College
1:05 PM	Data Journalism as a Public Service Part I Presentation Christine Zhang, Financial Times
1:25 PM	Data Journalism as a Public Service Part II Aleksandra Wisniewska, Financial Times
1:45 PM	Statistical Challenges in Casualty Estimation Kristian Lum, HRDAG
2:05 PM	Using Multilevel Modeling to Explore Social Determinates of Injurious IPV Among Sexual Minorities Sharon S. Caslin, Evaluation Fellow at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2:25 PM	Data Science in the Courtroom: How Statistics Can Inform Litigation and Public Policy Brooke Watson Madubuonwu, American Civil Liberties Union
2:45 PM	Floor Discussion

145 * !	Tue, 8/4/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Statistics of Social Media — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Computing, Social Statistics Section, Text Analysis Interest Group
Organizer(s): Juha Alho, University of Helsinki
Chair(s): Stanislav Kolenikov, Abt Associates
10:55 AM	What Authors Reveal of Themselves in Internet Discussions? Presentation Juha Alho, University of Helsinki
11:20 AM	Discussant: Frauke Kreuter, University of Maryland, University of Mannheim & IAB
11:40 AM	Floor Discussion

147 !	Tue, 8/4/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Private Data for the Public Good: Formal Privacy in Survey Organizations — Invited Papers
Social Statistics Section, Survey Research Methods Section, Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality
Organizer(s): Tom Krenzke, Westat
Chair(s): Tom Krenzke, Westat
10:05 AM	Will Differential Privacy Affect Social Science Research Workflow? Presentation Frauke Kreuter, University of Maryland, University of Mannheim & IAB
10:25 AM	The Effect on Data Utility of Using Differential Privacy Techniques to Produce Estimates of the Cost of Child Care Quentin Brummet, NORC at the University of Chicago
10:45 AM	How to Achieve Optimal Statistical Inference Under Formal Privacy Aleksandra Slavkovic, Pennsylvania State University
11:05 AM	The Formal Privacy Research Agenda for Complex Survey Statistics John M Abowd, U.S. Census Bureau
11:25 AM	Discussant: Jerry Reiter, Duke University
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

156 *	Tue, 8/4/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Continuing to Explore New Frontiers: Research to Integrate Administrative Data into the American Community Survey — Topic Contributed Papers
Survey Research Methods Section, Government Statistics Section, Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Jennifer M Ortman, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Jennifer M Ortman, U.S. Census Bureau
10:05 AM	Analyzing Differences Between Survey Responses and Administrative Data for Property Value Presentation R. Chase Sawyer, U.S. Census Bureau
10:25 AM	Using Alternative Data Sources to Fill-In Missing Values for Demographic Characteristics on the American Community Survey Sandra Clark, US Census Bureau
10:45 AM	Predicting Vacant Housing Units in the American Community Survey Andrew Keller, U.S. Census Bureau
11:05 AM	Using Administrative Records to Improve Income Measurement in the American Community Survey John Voorheis, US Census Bureau
11:25 AM	Linking ACS and IRS Data to Assess Educational Attainment by Family Income Leah R. Clark, US Census Bureau
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

158 * !	Tue, 8/4/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Statistical Demography — Topic Contributed Papers
Social Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
Organizer(s): Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
Chair(s): Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
10:05 AM	Scenario-Based Bayesian Probabilistic Projections of the Sex Ratio at Birth and Missing Female Births for All Countries and Country-Level Imbalances Presentation Fengqing Chao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Patrick Gerland, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations; Alex Cook, National University of Singapore and National University Health System; Leontine Alkema, University of Massachussetts
10:25 AM	ACCOUNTING for SMOKING in FORECASTING MORTALITY and LIFE EXPECTANCY Yicheng Li, University of Washington; Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
10:45 AM	Detecting Disease Outbreak Using Travelers Data -- a Case Study of COVID-19 Epidemic Le Bao, Penn State University; Xiaoyue Maggie Niu, Penn State University; Ying Zhang, Penn State University
11:05 AM	Bayesian Demographic Accounts Junni Zhang, Peking University; John Bryant, Bayesian Demography Limited; Peter W. F. Smith, School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences, University of Southampton
11:25 AM	Floor Discussion

159 !	Tue, 8/4/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
What Happens When the U.S. Population Is Undercounted in the Decennial Census? — Topic Contributed Papers
Committee of Representatives to AAAS, Social Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Dudley L Poston, Texas A&M University
Chair(s): William O'Hare, O'Hare Data and Demographic Services LLC
10:05 AM	What Happens to the Distribution of Seats in the U.S. House of Representatives with a Census Undercount? Presentation Dudley L Poston, Texas A&M University
10:25 AM	The End of the Census David Swanson, University of California, Riverside
10:45 AM	What Happens If the U.S. Rural Population Is Undercounted?: Challenges and Community-Level Responses John Green, University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies
11:05 AM	How Are Invisible Communities of Immigrants in the United States Counted? What Happens If They’re Undercounted? Nadia Flores-Yeffal, Texas Tech University
11:25 AM	“Census Undercount: Lessening a Community's Financial Loss” Peter Morrison, Peter A. Morrison & Associates, Inc.
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

169 * !	Tue, 8/4/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Estimating Heterogeneity in Treatment Effects in Complex Real World Settings — Topic Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section, Social Statistics Section, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania
Chair(s): Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania
10:05 AM	Estimating Optimal Treatment Rules with an Instrumental Variable: A Partial Identification Learning Approach Hongming Pu, University of Pennsylvania; Bo Zhang, Univ of Pennsylvania
10:25 AM	WITHDRAWN Personalizing Treatments for Habit Formation: Learning Optimal Treatment Rules from a Multi-Arm Experiment Rahul Ladhania
10:45 AM	WITHDRAWN The Value of Personalized Medicine: Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in the Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure Jeffrey Scott McCullough, University of Michigan; Sriram Somanchi, University of Notre Dame
11:05 AM	Floor Discussion

222	Tue, 8/4/2020, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM	Virtual
Contributed Poster Presentations: Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences — Contributed Poster Presentations
Social Statistics Section
1:	Validating the Instructor Misbehavior Scale for Graduate Students Blaire Nicole Kubie, Florida State University; Chelsea Shore, Florida State University

236	Tue, 8/4/2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Virtual
Social Statistics Section P.M. Roundtable Discussion — Roundtables PM Roundtable Discussion
Social Statistics Section
TL12:	Ethics and Data Science Stephanie Shipp, Univ of Virginia, Biocomplexity Institute
TL14:	Impact of Formal Privacy on Statistical Inference and Data Products Aleksandra Slavkovic, Pennsylvania State University

255 * !	Tue, 8/4/2020, 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM	Virtual
Data and Challenges for Unraveling Gun Violence — Invited Papers
Social Statistics Section, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, Committee on Law and Justice Statistics
Organizer(s): Jana Lynn Asher, Slippery Rock University
Chair(s): James Rosenberger , National Institute of Statistical Sciences
1:05 PM	An Overview of Statistical Issues (and Opportunities) in Studying Gun Violence Elizabeth Stuart, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
1:30 PM	The Role of Individual Officer Characteristics in Police Shootings Presentation Greg Ridgeway, University of Pennsylvania
1:55 PM	Which handgun owners are at highest risk of suicide Yifan Zhang, Stanford University
2:20 PM	Place-Based Field Experiments to Test Gun Violence Reduction Strategies John MacDonald, University of Pennsylvania
2:45 PM	Floor Discussion

275 * !	Tue, 8/4/2020, 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM	Virtual
Urban Analytics and the Role for University/City Partnerships — Topic Contributed Papers
Stats. Partnerships Among Academe Indust. & Govt. Committee, Social Statistics Section, Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences
Organizer(s): Katherine Ensor, Rice University
Chair(s): Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University
1:05 PM	Privatization of Data and Data Privacy- Local Data Flows Presentation Stephanie Shipp, Univ of Virginia, Biocomplexity Institute ; Sallie Ann Keller, Distinguished Professor in Biocomplexity, U of Virginia
1:25 PM	Spatial-Temporal Statistical Modeling in Support of Urban Resiliency Katherine Ensor, Rice University
1:45 PM	Computational Approaches to Urban Sustainability Policy and Planning Constantine Kontokosta
2:05 PM	Discussant: Tyler Kloefkorn, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
2:25 PM	Discussant: Robert L. Santos, Urban Institute
2:45 PM	Floor Discussion

276 * !	Tue, 8/4/2020, 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM	Virtual
Enhancing the Dissemination of Data for the Public Good — Topic Contributed Panel
Social Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section, Business and Economic Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Barbara A. Downs, United States Census Bureau
Chair(s): John Eltinge, Census Bureau
1:05 PM	Enhancing the Dissemination of Data for the Public Good
Panelists:	Barbara A. Downs, United States Census Bureau Catherine Fitch, University of Minnesota Trent Alexander, University of Michigan Zachary Whitman, US Census Bureau
2:40 PM	Floor Discussion

281 * !	Wed, 8/5/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
The State-of-the-Art Developments with Nonignorable Nonresponse — Invited Papers
Survey Research Methods Section, International Association of Survey Statisticians, Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Jiwei Zhao, State University of New York at Buffalo
Chair(s): Ran Tao, Vanderbilt University
10:05 AM	An Inferential Procedure in a Linear Regression Model Under a Model-Free Missingness Mechanism: Without and with Penalization Jiwei Zhao, State University of New York at Buffalo
10:30 AM	Semiparametric Response Model with Nonignorable Nonresponse Jae-kwang Kim, Iowa State University
10:55 AM	Testing for Principal Component Directions Under Weak Identifiability Davy Paindaveine, Université libre de Bruxelles and Université Toulouse Capitole; Thomas Verdebout, Université libre de Bruxelles; Julien Remy, Université libre de Bruxelles
11:20 AM	The Role of Weights in Regression Modeling and Imputation (Including When There is Nonignorable Nonresponse) Presentation Phillip S Kott, RTI International
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

290 * !	Wed, 8/5/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
How the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics Advances Excellence in Federal Statistics — Invited Papers
Government Statistics Section, Social Statistics Section, Survey Research Methods Section
Organizer(s): Cynthia Z. F. Clark, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
Chair(s): William W. Beach, Bureau of Labor Statistics
10:05 AM	The Role of Policy and Advocacy Katherine Smith Evans, American Economic Association
10:30 AM	Collaboration to Enable the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Conferences Presentation Rochelle (Shelly) Wilkie Martinez, Office of Management and Budget
10:55 AM	Engaging Federal Statistical Agencies with Stakeholders and Users: Roles of COPAFS Quarterly Meetings, Monthly Updates, Workshops, and Seminars Cynthia Z. F. Clark, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics; Paul Schroeder, COPAFS
11:20 AM	Discussant: Steven B. Cohen, RTI International
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

308 * !	Wed, 8/5/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Data Integration in 21st Century Government Surveys — Topic Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section, Survey Research Methods Section, Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Timothy Trudell, US Census Bureau
Chair(s): Carolina Franco, Census Bureau
10:05 AM	Robust, High-Dimensional Data Linkage for Small Area Statistics Snigdhansu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota
10:25 AM	Hierarchical Bayesian Model with Inequality Constraints for County Estimates Lu Chen, National Institute of Statistical Sciences; Bal Nandram, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Nathan B. Cruze, NASS, USDA
10:45 AM	Statistical Integration and Inference via Multilevel Regression and Poststratification Yajuan Si, University of Michigan
11:05 AM	On a Bayesian Empirical Likelihood Based Information Integration for Complex Survey Data Sanjay Chaudhuri, National University of Singapore
11:25 AM	Adjusting Record Linkage Match Weights to Partial Levels of String Agreement Dean Resnick, National Opinion Research Center (NORC); Lisa B Mirel, National Center Health Statistics (NCHS/CDC); Marc Roemer, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Scott Cambell, N.O.R.C. at the University of Chicago
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

330	Wed, 8/5/2020, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM	Virtual
Making Sense of Network Data and Randomized Response — Contributed Papers
Social Statistics Section
Chair(s): Stephanie Eckman, RTI International
	Applying Neuroscience Research Towards the Application of a Randomized Response Model Augustus Jayaraj, Cornell University; Sarjinder Singh, Texas A&M Kingsville; Oluseun Odumade, Deloitte & Touche
	Bipartite Incident Graph Sampling Melike Alper, Statistisk sentralbyraa; Li-Chun Zhang, University of Southampton
	Estimation of Relative Risk, Correlation Coefficient, Odds Ratio and a Few Other Parameters Using Randomized Response Techniques Cheon-Sig Lee, San Jacinto College; Stephen Sedory, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Sarjinder Singh, Texas A&M Kingsville
	Introducing the KERGM: An ERG Model Immune to Degeneracy Bart Blackburn, UCLA Statistics
	Bayesian Community Detection for Networks with Covariates Luyi Shen, University of Notre Dame; Arash Ali Amini, UCLA; Lizhen Lin, University of Notre Dame
	Bayesian Regularized Regression for Network Data Elizabeth Upton, Williams College; Luis Carvalho, Boston University

378	Wed, 8/5/2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Virtual
Social Statistics Section P.M. Roundtable Discussion — Roundtables PM Roundtable Discussion
Social Statistics Section
WL12:	Big N, Little T: Social Policy Making in the Mainstream AI Age Frank Yoon, IBM Watson Health

415 * !	Wed, 8/5/2020, 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM	Virtual
Massive Administrative Data to Advance the Public Good — Topic Contributed Panel
Social Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section, Survey Research Methods Section
Organizer(s): Asaph Young Chun, Statistics Research Institute - Statistics Korea
Chair(s): Justin Fisher, Government Accountability Office
1:05 PM	Massive Administrative Data to Advance the Public Good: Nudging Data-Based Exit Policy - Nearcasting Lessons from the Crucible of Pandemic Crisis
Panelists:	Asaph Young Chun, Statistics Research Institute - Statistics Korea Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
2:45 PM	Floor Discussion

421 !	Thu, 8/6/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Recent Advances in Time Series and Temporal Data Analysis — Invited Papers
Business and Economic Statistics Section, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Shujie Ma, University of California, Riverside
Chair(s): Shujie Ma, University of California, Riverside
10:05 AM	Semiparametric Modeling of Structured Point Processes Using Multi-Level Log-Gaussian Cox Processes Yongtao Guan, University of Miami
10:30 AM	Nonparametric Standard Errors for High Frequency Data Per Mykland, University of Chicago; Lan Zhang, University of Illinois at Chicago
10:55 AM	Relevant Two-Sample Tests for the Eigenfunctions of Covariance Operators Presentation Alexander Aue, University of California-Davis
11:20 AM	Smoothed Log-Concave Probability Mass Functions with Application to Time-Series of Counts Thibault Vatter, Columbia University
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

423 *	Thu, 8/6/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Transparent, Efficient and Accessible Reporting on the Quality of Multiple Input Data Sources — Invited Papers
Government Statistics Section, Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Michael Lee Cohen, Committee on National Statistics
Chair(s): Daniel Kasprzyk, NORC
10:05 AM	The Role of the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers in Promoting Transparency and Reproducibility in Federal Statistics Margaret C. Levenstein, ICPSR: the Data Consortium, and the University of Michigan
10:30 AM	Computational Reproducibility, Transparency, and Credibility of Official Statistics Presentation Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University
10:55 AM	Achieving Privacy and the Production of Quality Statistics When Using Alternative Data Sources Eric Rancourt, Statistics Canada
11:20 AM	Discussant: John Eltinge, Census Bureau
11:35 AM	Floor Discussion

426 * !	Thu, 8/6/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
SESSION CANCELLED — Invited Papers
Survey Research Methods Section, Government Statistics Section, Social Statistics Section

449 * !	Thu, 8/6/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Data Challenges: Innovating Diverse Solutions — Topic Contributed Papers
Social Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Claire Bowen, Urban Institute
Chair(s): Evercita Eugenio, Sandia National Laboratories
10:05 AM	Lessons Learned from the 500 Cities Data Challenge Claire Bowen, Urban Institute
10:25 AM	Insights from Chaos: Take-Aways from Coordinating a DataFest 2020 Event Alicia Lamere, Bryant University
10:45 AM	Generating Differentially-Private Synthetic Data with High Utility Ryan McKenna, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
11:05 AM	What We’ve Learned from 7 Years of Real-Time Flu Forecasting in the United States Dave Osthus, Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:25 AM	Discussant: Joshua Snoke, RAND Corporation
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

452 *	Thu, 8/6/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Data Matching Practice and Application in the United States Immigration System — Topic Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section, Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee, Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Scott Glabe, Department of Homeland Security; Marc Rosenblum, Office of Immigration Statistics; Hongwei Zhang, Office of Immigration Statistics, DHS
Chair(s): Scott Glabe, Department of Homeland Security
10:05 AM	Person Centric Official Entry/Exit Visa Tracking Visa Tracking I94 System: ADIS Michael Gorman, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
10:25 AM	Data Matching for Non-Obvious Relationships Within Immigration Damian Kostiuk, Department of Homeland Security
10:45 AM	Using Linked Criminal Immigration Data from the Federal Justice Statistics Program Mark Motivans, Bureau of Justice Statistics
11:05 AM	Data Matching in Immigration Enforcement Lifecycle Tool Hongwei Zhang, Office of Immigration Statistics, DHS
11:25 AM	Discussant: Marc Rosenblum, Office of Immigration Statistics
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

453	Thu, 8/6/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Recursive Partitioning for Modeling Survey Data and Randomized Trials — Topic Contributed Papers
Survey Research Methods Section, Government Statistics Section, Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Morgan Earp, National Center for Health Statistics
Chair(s): Brady T West, University of Michigan
10:05 AM	Assessing the Relationship Between Proxy Burden Measures and Survey Response in a Longitudinal Household Survey Using Regression Trees Morgan Earp, National Center for Health Statistics; Brandon Kopp, Bureau of Labor Statistics; John Dixon, Bureau of Labor Statistics
10:25 AM	A Comparison of Classification and Regression Tree Methodologies When Modeling Survey Nonresponse William Cecere, Westat; Amy Lin, Westat; Jennifer Kali, Westat; Michael Jones, Westat
10:45 AM	Identifying Cluster-Level Predictors While Controlling for Unit-Level Characteristics in Clustered Data Presentation Elizabeth Petraglia, Westat
11:05 AM	Fitting Classification Trees Accounting for Complex Survey Design Minsun Riddles, Westat; Jean Opsomer, Westat; Elizabeth Petraglia, Westat
11:25 AM	Exploring R {Rpms} to Predict Perceived Respondents Burden in the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey Daniel Yang, Bureau of Labor Statistics
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

516	Thu, 8/6/2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Virtual
Social Statistics Section P.M. Roundtable Discussion — Roundtables PM Roundtable Discussion
Social Statistics Section
RL10:	Measuring Social Influence: Quantifying and Collecting Network Data Tyler McCormick, University of Washington

531 * !	Thu, 8/6/2020, 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM	Virtual
Urban Analytics: Modeling and Analysis of High Resolution Urban Data — Invited Papers
Social Statistics Section, Business and Economic Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Shane Jensen, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Chair(s): Shane Jensen, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
1:05 PM	Re-Examining the Law of Crime Concentration: Between-And Within-City Evidence Maria Cuellar, University of Pennsylvania; Aaron Chalfin, University of Pennsylvania; Jacob Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
1:25 PM	Multivariate Temporal Modeling of Crime with Dynamic Linear Models Presentation Jarad Niemi, Iowa State University; Nate Garton, Iowa State University
1:45 PM	Spatial Clustering of Crime Trends in Urban Environments at Multiple Resolutions Cecilia Balocchi, University of Pennsylvania; Shane Jensen, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Edward George, University of Pennsylvania
2:05 PM	Inflection Points in Community-Level Homeless Rates Dennis Culhane, University of Pennsylvania; Thomas Byrne, Boston University; Chris Glynn, University of New Hampshire
2:25 PM	Discussant: Rachel Thurston, Stantec, Inc
2:45 PM	Floor Discussion

566 * !	Thu, 8/6/2020, 3:00 PM - 4:50 PM	Virtual
Teaching Data Science for Good: How University-Based Initiatives Are Shaping Future Statisticians’ Societal Impact — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Consulting, Social Statistics Section, Section on Statistics and Data Science Education
Organizer(s): Emily L Morris, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
Chair(s): Emily L Morris, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
3:05 PM	Data for Good in Your Neighborhood: How Graduate Students and Local Communities Benefit from Collaborative Partnerships Presentation Stephen Salerno, University of Michigan
3:35 PM	"Data for Good" at Columbia's Data Science Institute Tian Zheng, Columbia University
4:05 PM	Data Science Education as an Economic and Public Health Intervention: How (Bio)Statisticians Can Lead Change in the World Jeff Leek, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4:35 PM	Floor Discussion

568 * !	Thu, 8/6/2020, 3:00 PM - 4:50 PM	Virtual
Perspectives on Grant Review: Leave it, Fix it, or Nix It? — Invited Papers
Social Statistics Section, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Elena A Erosheva, University of Washington ; Carole Lee, University of Washington
Chair(s): Elena A Erosheva, University of Washington
3:05 PM	How Do Bibliometric Measures Affect NIH Funding? Donna Ginther, University of Kansas
3:30 PM	The Participation and Motivations of Grant Peer Reviewers Presentation Stephen Gallo, AIBS
3:55 PM	Burning Money? the Inherent Inefficiency of Grant Proposal Competitions in Allocating Research Funding, and Possible Alternatives Kevin Gross, North Carolina State University
4:20 PM	Peer Review Evaluation at the NIH Center for Scientific Review Noni Byrnes, NIH; Bruce Reed, NIH
4:45 PM	Floor Discussion

588	Thu, 8/6/2020, 3:00 PM - 4:50 PM	Virtual
GSS/SRMS/SSS Student Paper Award Winners — Topic Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section, Survey Research Methods Section, Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): William Cecere, Westat
Chair(s): Jean Opsomer, Westat
3:05 PM	Multifile Record Linkage and Duplicate Detection via a Structured Prior for Partitions Serge Aleshin-Guendel, University of Washington; Mauricio Sadinle, University of Washington
3:25 PM	Privacy for Spatial Point Process Data Adam Walder, Pennsylvania State Unversity
3:45 PM	Transformed Fay-Herriot Model with Measurement Error in Covariates Sepideh Mosaferi, Iowa State University; Rebecca C. Steorts, Duke University
4:05 PM	Robust Bayesian Non-Parametric Inference for Non-Probability Samples: An Attempt to Combine Sensor-Based Records with Traditional Survey Data Presentation Ali Rafei, University of Michigan; Michael R Elliott, University of Michigan; Carol Flannagan, Transportation Research Institute, University of Michigan
4:25 PM	An Overlooked Bias-Variance Tradeoff for Average Treatment Effects in Multisite Randomized Trials Daniel Schwartz, University of Chicago; Stephen Raudenbush, University of Chicago
4:45 PM	Floor Discussion

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